Effective note-taking strategies

1. Sarah, Allison and Ellen Effective note-taking strategies

2. Record ideas and facts that students learn, to help them remember and use them later • Use with oral presentations or written sources in and out of the classroom • Enhance student understanding of material • Comprehension/retention • Prep for exams, complete assignments, and increasing reading comprehension • Reinforce what is being communicated Effective note-taking strategies

3. Effective note-taking strategies • Life & Career skills • Productivity • Accountability • Responsibility • Self-direction • Adaptability • Higher-level thinking • Guided notes • Literature packets • Multi-genre • Note cards • Other examples: • Strategic notes • Q notes • Cornell notes • Pre-reading questionnaire

4. Effective note-taking strategies • Literature Packets • Novel cards • Literature circles • Graphic organizers • Quote responses • Essay outline • You can mix and match which elements you want to include in the packet for each novel • The quality of the packet can be graded on how thoroughly each student takes notes on each novel or larger work.

5. Notes with notecards • Goal: • To teach your class how to take notes for research papers. • To teach your class how to form ideas and arguments from notes. • Supplies • 2 differently sized packages of note cards. Effective note-taking strategies

6. Procedure • Students will be asked to bring to class packages of 2 different sized note cards. • The largest size will be used for their notes. • The smaller card will be used for citing source materials. • Present strategy to class then practice in library using guided practice worksheet. Effective note-taking strategies

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8. Assessment • Collect note cards throughout research process • Check for correct citations. • Check for appropriate subjects. • Check note cards against outline and works cited page. Effective note-taking strategies

9. Positives • Students can arrange their note cards to help form ideas and create outline. • The process of taking notes, rearranging the information, and forming arguments climbs up Blooms taxonomy. • Every piece of information is cited. • Cons • Potential for students to lose cards. • Students responsible for providing note cards. Effective note-taking strategies

10. Guided notes • Organized notebook (notebook checks) • Chronological order (date and title) • Prepared hand-outs that outline lectures but leave blank spaces for key concepts, facts, definitions, etc. • Follow the lecture • Important points • Foundation • Questions/discussion Effective note-taking strategies

11. español example • New vocabulary • Information about a historical or other cultural event • Grammar • Introduce new vocabulary • Use visual cues and guided notes • Have students use vocabulary in class while it is being introduced • Assign flash cards as homework to reinforce new vocabulary • Play game/activity with flash cards to practice new vocabulary Effective note-taking strategies

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14. Effective note-taking strategies • Multi-genre project • History project • Literature connection • Example • History research project may be on World War I and the use of gas and trench warfare. • Literature component could be about Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est.”

15. Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned out backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. Dulce Et Decorum Est • In all my dreams before my helpless sight • He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. • If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace • Behind the wagon that we flung him in, • And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, • His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin, • If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood • Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs • Bitter as the cud • Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-- • My friend, you would not tell with such high zest • To children ardent for some desperate glory, • The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est • Pro patria mori. 

16. The strategies presented teach students • Organization • Accountability • Higher level thinking • Responsibility • All strategies can be adapted to accommodate multiple subjects and learning styles. • Questions/Suggestions Effective note-taking strategies

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